I agree with not smoking in a public place, like a restaurant, but someone having a cigarette on a park bench in the open air, should be OK. I don't smoke and don't like to inhale it while I'm eating, nor do I want my children to, but outside is their business. No one owns the air we breathe. In New York the very rich and the very poor live comfortably, but the middle class is getting robbed of not only their income, but now their rights. Neither rich nor poor.....are in a fast food place having a big glass of soda. But now we're getting into deep water politics here, which is something else.